Mining: In the foreground a labourer is breaking ore with a hammer supervised by an overseer. In the background aman is wheeling truck full of ore out the mine on track with wooden rails. Said to be earliest illustration of a railway. At upper right is a view of the mine shaft with a bucket being lowered to the working level. From Sebastian Munster 'Cosmographie', 1550. Woodcut.
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